In his new memoir, “Heartbreaker,” Mike Campbell recalls an afternoon in the early ’70s when Tom Petty — Campbell’s bandmate in a Gainesville, Fla., cover band called Mudcrutch — played one of his songs.

When Tom Petty passed away in 2017, he was on the road with his band The Heartbreakers. The legendary singer-songwriter died of an accidental overdose after using drugs to help ease the pain of a fractured hip.

Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell insisted his "conscience is clear" over his bandleader Tom Petty's 2017 death from an accidental drug overdose. "I don't torture myself [over Petty's death]," Campbell,

History is littered with stories of bandmates who, despite appearing to work together hand in glove, didn’t always get along, and guitarist and Heartbreaker Mike Campbell has confirmed that this was most certainly the case when it came to his relationship with de facto band leader Tom Petty.

Mike Campbell was always more than just the deeply gifted guitarist for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - songs from "Refugee" to "You Wreck Me," not to mention Don Henley's "Boys of Summer," began with music he wrote.

With his upcoming memoir, Heartbreaker, due March 18 from Hachette Book Group, guitarist Mike Campbell delivers a spellbinding account of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the classic American band he was a part of since its inception till Petty’s tragic death in 2017.